2017 Moscow Open: all for one and one for all

2/7/2017 – Once more one of the world's largest chess festivals took place in the heart of the chess world, the Moscow Open. Named as if it were but one event, it is rather a sprawling festival of chess competitions that range from foremost main Open, to an exclusive (and very well attended) Women's Open, an Amateur (sub-2300), team events, university competitions, a huge children's competition, and this year they even innovated with a Rapid Chess tournament for the blind!

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The RSSU School Champions’ Cup was one of the first to open the program of the XIII International RSSU Chess Cup, 2017 Moscow Open. 740 chess players under 14 entered the struggle for the prizes. They represent 10 countries: Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Spain, Estonia, Kirgizia, Lithuania, Peru and Ukraine.

The children enjoyed their own special opening ceremony with their own special entertainment

The children clearly loved it and were mesmerized

And what a show they got!

Ernesto Inarkiev, the 2015 winner of the main event with a huge 8.0/9 score, was present and impressed

Over 740 competitors came for the competitions for boys and girls under ages 9, 11, 13, and 15

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The grand Ceremony Opening of the XIII International RSSU Cup, 2017 Moscow Open traditionally was held in the assembly hall of the Russian State Social University main building.

The program started with the Russia dance performance by show-ballet of Irina Knyazeva

This year the competition saw no 2700+ players, though it had no shortage of grandmasters. Top seed was Sanan Sjugirov with 2673 FIDE. A slip in round four to FM Ramil Faizrakhmanov cost him dearly and he finished in 14th place. That said, FM Faizrakhmanov actually scored a full GM norm, so it wasn't just a bad beat.

Second seed was Russian-born American Gata Kamsky, who came for the very first time. In an interview, he explained that the previous year he had played Gibraltar, something he had been meaning to do for a while, and next on his bucket list was the Moscow Open, whose dates clashed with the other event. The American finished with 7.0/9 and 5th place.

Third seed was the very talented GM Vladislav Artemiev, who came tied first with 7.5/9 but came second on tiebreak

Another big name was Denis Khismatullin who did well and came in 4th with 7.0/9

The surprise winner was nevertheless IM Dmitry Gordievsky, rated 2562 FIDE, who had a superb event, finishing with 7.5/9, and a 2771 performance. This also earned him 23 Elo and 500 thousand rubles, (roughly US$8500).

Albert SilverBorn in the US, he grew up in Paris, France, where he completed his Baccalaureat, and after college moved to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He had a peak rating of 2240 FIDE, and was a key designer of Chess Assistant 6. In 2010 he joined the ChessBase family as an editor and writer at ChessBase News. He is also a passionate photographer with work appearing in numerous publications.

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12/30/2017 – The "King Salman World Blitz & Rapid Championships 2017" in Riyadh from Decemer 26th to 30th. At the half way point of the Blitz Championship, the defending champ Sergey Karjakin leads with 9 / 11. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave is a half point back followed by Peter Svidler and a trio of Chinese: Wang, Ding and Yu on 8 / 11. In the Women's Pia Cramling has a full point lead with 9½ / 11. Watch live with Rounds 11 to 22 from 12:00 Noon CET (6:00 AM EST) on Saturday with commentary by E. Miroshnichenko & WGM K. Tsatsalashvili.

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5/7/2017 – It would have been a nice, but fairly normal chess initiative that would never have been reported here were it not for the highly unusual result. The Chittagong District Sports Association (CJKA) organized for the first time a school team chess tournament named the CJKS Nails and Wood Inter School Team Chess Tournament 2017. Open to all, with boys teams and girls teams, the unbeaten champion was the Chittagong Government School for the Blind.

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